In Persia they were connected with the obscure worship of Mithras. |
In the case of my show, I've chosen to involve him in a real mystery called the Sons of Mithras. |
The impure are to be purified, and the evil made good, through the mediation of Mithras, the reconciler of Ormuzd and Ahriman. |
Then, in the name of Mithras, I must go on, though it should make my heart bleed. |
A great number of the nobility took theophorous names compounded with Mithras. |
Known as Mithras in the Roman Empire during the 2nd and 3rd centuries ce, this deity was honoured as the patron of loyalty to the emperor. |